of the world's energy. The GCC The Gulf Cooperative Council. Okay? So, the Gulf Cooperative Council are certain nations in the Middle Middle East that align politically. So, they include Qatar,Saudi Arabia, uh the UAE, Oman, Iran, Kuwait.
And I had the real privilege to, right out of culinary school, land a job at a cooperative called Arizmendi Bakery Cooperative . So I got to learn how to not just be a baker, but an owner-- we were all both workers and owners--and seeing how a democratic place works.
I think a lot of people are very bullish on blockchain-- and I'm also bullish on blockchain-- but I think people want to use it a lot of times Cooperative ownership and cooperative movements are big in developing countries, as well as in the US.
had not been done before and that was going to be uh where Cooperative uh as far as the uh story
So we tried to take advantage of that. cooperative game and turn it into one.
They would help their neighbors achieve the same. Cooperatives would form. And she saw this as the economic background and spinefor Indonesia to become more resilient and stay peaceful.
But in fact, just like this frog, right, it's hiding in plain sight. Cooperatives are really hiding in plain sight.So from the Barcelona Futbal Club to Ace Hardware, REI, s Associated Press, these are all cooperatives that are,
This is in Emilia Romagna which is the area around Bologna in Spain. And they have a 125 year history of worker cooperatives . And in fact 35 to 40% of their GDP comes from worker cooperatives . They also have a different model from Mondragon. Mondragon is, looks, its organization chart would like a typical corporation.But in Emilia Romagna they have a networked organization. As a matter of fact, I think it's more kinda like a, it's more, something more in tune with those who work with the
- Even if you could get your hands on that many spiders, as we've seen, milking them is difficult, and the spiders don't always cooperate. - Really cooperative spider will give you 300 yards of silk. 100's a lot more typical, but they kind of have their own individual personalities.
And the final result of that after 157 seconds is humans instinctively convert selfish desires into cooperative systems by collectively pretending abstract rules, money, laws, rights, are real. These shared hallucinations act as, quote, games, where competition is secretly redirected to benefit the group, turning conflict into society's fuel.
It will be discussed again at the next board meeting next year, so a democratic ownership of the internet also being part of this discussion. through cooperative ownership and Resonate, which just launched after a very long time
where beer is an agricultural product. Cornell Cooperative Extension is helping them out with that, and helping them get set up, and figure out what they need to do.
world tropics because they built a beautiful nest the leaf tent nests in a remarkable cooperative fashion do you see the pictures well down there it is still very light yeah ok in order to build them they built they form living
consuming; buying and consuming more. But we're actually born and bred to share and cooperate and we were doing so for thousands of years, whether we hunted in packs or farmed in cooperatives . But now sharing is back with this ubiquitous force that we call the peer to peer revolution and we're growing up sharing files and videos and knowledge and now these behaviors are extending into other areas of our lives. And this is driving a massive cultural shift from Generation Me to Generation We. Clay Shirky, who I'm sure you're all familiar
Today, because of Google, you have a whole generation that's wired their brain differently. retail cooperatives -- so people control their own energy and distribute it across grids.
Today, because of Google, you have a whole generation that's wired their brain differently. global cooperatives and businesses. Does that sound good to you?
how that all sums up together really depends on whether or not we go back to depends on whether or not we go back to a more stable cooperative world or a more stable cooperative world or whether what's been happening in the whether what's been happening in the last 5 to 10 years uh just accelerates last 5 to 10 years uh just accelerates away and the geopolitical tensions and
want and therefore saying let's have a nice cool calm collected cooperative nice cool calm collected cooperative world uh seems a bit implausible given world uh seems a bit implausible given the current politics that are driving the current politics that are driving us.
But he's completely cooperative .
And without the cooperative side of it here in Michigan, each small farmer that's trying to do these things so hard, they're only going to be able--
It's a writer cooperative here in Boston.
It's everything from childcare to software development. There are cooperative online marketplaces, as you will see in a second, health data cooperatives , translation, credit unions, crowdfunding, journalism. I will give you a few examples.
and going as a cooperative group to the government to present some of these challenges and ask them to make some changes in how they present
It's very cooperative . And these are these people.
It was a really cooperative effort.
I think there are cooperative forms of organization that work-- Mondragon in Spain, which I actually visited some years ago.
The John Edwards Cooperative in the United Kingdom.
We have our next cooperative agreement notice.
He created a cooperative .
And these herders are cooperative all, but they're all cooperative in different ways.
is making us less cooperative .
impels me to be cooperative .
And it becomes cooperative in a way that hunting and gathering never had to be.
to move into a cooperative relationship?
She was not very cooperative the day I was visiting.
We're just really cooperative , you guys have all cooperated more than a hundred times since breakfast.
a uh called Cooperative education a co-op program and as a result I spent about a year and a half while I was
Okay. So let me talk about some real live examples. First is the Mondragon Cooperative Corporation of Spain. And this is a 50 year old, 60 year old collection of cooperatives . There are 80,000 worker-owners and they do 25 billion per annum in sales. And they do everything from hunting, smooth bore hunting pieces to
um managerial very Cooperative literal precise concrete details I I recently
um to a coffee cooperative high in the hills in Burundi and when we get there
of this cooperative and um I'm standing next there's a guy
You can set up cooperatives , for example, energy cooperatives , food cooperatives .
But also to work cooperatively to show how response and strength and capacities for fulfillment.
There are writer cooperatives like it in other cities.
There are many laws against it. But with cooperatives , it could be different where you basically say that there are national data co-ops for patients that can then decide to release these data to their general practitioner to researchers or even sell them to the industry.
And with cooperatives , you share.
So we tried to take advantage of that. So you're playing cooperatively , but you still playing competitively against other players.
and India would be much more cooperative here. That's not what's occurring. And why is that? It's because that oil
Often it's a farmer cooperative or an NGO group who is an umbrella to those farmers.
And this was an incredibly productive cooperative venture from the late 19th century to the 1930s,